From vehicle stability control to intelligent personal minder: Real-time vehicle handling limit warning and driver style characterization

This paper presents a novel approach to developing a driver advisory system that can warn the drivers of driving conditions close to the limit of vehicle handling. This advisory system utilizes intelligence inferred from vehicle states, measured signals, and the other computed variables used for active safety and vehicle control purposes. The onboard computing resources, algorithms, and sensors used to deduce such intelligence exist in today´s electronic stability control systems.